[HN Gopher] Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance came...
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       Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI
       informants
        
       Author : _tk_
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2025-06-28 18:37 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.reuters.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.reuters.com)
        
       | richardatlarge wrote:
       | By now, the FBI should know better than to underestimate the
       | cartels.
        
       | RRWagner wrote:
       | The most important take-away of the story is that if the
       | government has the power to gather all available data of people,
       | sooner or later the same information will be in the hands of
       | criminals targeting those same people.
        
         | OutOfHere wrote:
         | Furthermore, the government is complicit in the intentional
         | insecurity of the phone networks, protocols, and operating
         | systems.
        
         | Arubis wrote:
         | And oftentimes the government and the criminals will be the
         | same people--if not at the beginning then by convergence.
        
         | pkkkzip wrote:
         | also a demonstration of resources of the state vs those of a
         | cartel
         | 
         | quite good and poses significant challenge to the state
        
         | vkou wrote:
         | And sometimes, the government becomes the criminals and
         | everyone discovers that it's really difficult to get them to
         | hold themselves accountable.
        
       | firefax wrote:
       | I'm surprised how few people don't put their phone in airplane
       | mode when not actively making a call.
        
         | NewJazz wrote:
         | Ummm... You don't want to receive calls and texts?
        
           | firefax wrote:
           | >Ummm... You don't want to receive calls and texts?
           | 
           | not really
        
             | echoangle wrote:
             | But how can you be surprised that other people don't do
             | this if you expect to be able to call them? If you are able
             | to call them, they have to have their phone not in airplane
             | mode, right? Or do you only do scheduled calls?
        
             | gavinray wrote:
             | >Doesn't want to receive calls or texts
             | 
             | >Owns a phone
        
               | gausswho wrote:
               | > Doesn't mind when normies quaintly describe their
               | pocket supercomputer as a 'phone'
        
         | cschep wrote:
         | Your surprise at this makes you an extreme outlier.
        
         | gausswho wrote:
         | I do this at home to avoid needlessly hunting for towers that
         | are barely in range. But I am concerned that if I don't leave
         | the house for a few days the carrier (Google Fi / TMobile) may
         | be discarding messages. I've heard mixed opinions on if this is
         | happening. But I am missing calls even with WiFi calling on.
        
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